Root Canal Treatment

Root Canals are the most dreaded dental treatment assumed by the patients in dentistry. The fear of pain, past poor dental experiences or tell tale stories from family and friends have always casted a holocaust over the treatment acceptance amongst patients in general.

So what exactly is a ROOT CANAL TREATMENT:

• Root canals are done to save your natural tooth from decay and helping it restructure as a stronger unit so as to help you chew better. Teeth can be destroyed due to cavities or fracture or excessive grinding or infection through the gums to the teeth where in a root canal is a must. Also since at Vasupujya Dental Hospital we emphasize on a whole lot of complete solutions to your occlusion we also need to do root canals on purpose in some teeth which require major adjustments to correct them in proper form and occlusion for the patients.

IS ROOT CANAL A PAINFUL TREATMENT OR PAINLESS PROCEDURE?

• Well that’s the most commonly asked question to us at Vasupujya Dental Hospital. We would like to confront it openly a Root Canal Treatment is absolutely painless procedure when done by specialist dentists using a varied range of anesthetic products according to the case requirements. We at Vasupujya Dental Hospital generally combine the aroma therapy and sound therapy for patients too in order to ease the fear factor from the dental treatment. Apart from them; we also use conscious sedation (laughing gas) and ceiling mounted televisions for the patient to relax and watch their favorite shows while the treatment is being done. Also, there are two full time root canal specialist senior dentists on board so we take care of not only pain free root canal treatment but also pain free re-treaments in root canals. Also, for providing dentistry with precision our root canal specialists perform root canals with a dental operating microscope so there is no element of error left.

HOW MANY SITTINGS FOR A ROOT CANAL?

• Well majorly with the advancements in dentistry, we treat root canals in one sitting only. However, teeth with infection and / or requiring retreatments seldom take more than one visit. However, at Vasupujya Dental Hospital we take as much as minimum appointments required to make sure you don’t need to visit us unnecessarily. We have endomotors (rotary machines) to perform root canals so manual treatments are not done here, which clearly save s time for the patient.

DO WE TREAT FAILED ROOT CANALS?

• Yes. With two in house full time root canal specialists and an in house Dental Operating Microscope, the dentists at Vasupujya Dental Hospital have an experience and level of precision and skilled expertise to treat failed root canals. With the level of x rays and in house well trained staff, our job as retreatment specialists also becomes more predictable and accurate.